Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection

This one-of-a-kind guide virtually revolutionizes the coin-collecting business. Now, for the first time ever, here is a coin-grading volume so complete and so advanced that it explains, illustrates, and, indeed, sets the standard for grading Mint State coins. Precise and meticulously accurate descriptions accompany lavish illustrations, including a 48-page color insert.

What an undertaking this book was -- 48 pages of gorgeous color, spectacular black-and-white images throughout, the grading standards of the Professional Coin Grading Service published in a book for the first time -- this is truly the book no serious coin collector can do without! I worked with the top names in coin grading on this one, and I basically had to just sit back and marvel at their expertise. This was a challenge to produce, but an incredible achievement.
-- Randy Ladenheim-Gil, Editor, House of Collectibles